A researcher in metacognition who proposed that subjective confidence depends on the consistency of evidence supporting an answer. In his self-consistency model, people can confidently choose a wrong answer when the accessible evidence consistently favors it. This separates the mechanism producing confidence from the external criterion used to judge its accuracy.[ref]
The self-consistency model of subjective confidence by Asher Koriat. 2012, model assumptions and confidence–accuracy predictions
Portrait of Asher Koriat
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